A Comprehensive Review of Autophagy and Its Various Roles in Infectious, Non-Infectious, and Lifestyle Diseases : Current Knowledge and Prospects for Disease Prevention, Novel Drug Design, and Therapy

Autophagy (self-eating) is a conserved cellular degradation process that plays important roles in maintaining homeostasis and preventing nutritional, metabolic, and infection-mediated stresses. Autophagy dysfunction can have various pathological consequences, including tumor progression, pathogen hyper-virulence, and neurodegeneration. This review describes the mechanisms of autophagy and its associations with other cell death mechanisms, including apoptosis, necrosis, necroptosis, and autosis. Autophagy has both positive and negative roles in infection, cancer, neural development, metabolism, cardiovascular health, immunity, and iron homeostasis. Genetic defects in autophagy can have pathological consequences, such as static childhood encephalopathy with neurodegeneration in adulthood, Crohn's disease, hereditary spastic paraparesis, Danon disease, X-linked myopathy with excessive autophagy, and sporadic inclusion body myositis. Further studies on the process of autophagy in different microbial infections could help to design and develop novel therapeutic strategies against important pathogenic microbes. This review on the progress and prospects of autophagy research describes various activators and suppressors, which could be used to design novel intervention strategies against numerous diseases and develop therapeutic drugs to protect human and animal health.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2019

Erschienen:

2019

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:8

Enthalten in:

Cells - 8(2019), 7 vom: 03. Juli

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Khandia, Rekha [VerfasserIn]
Dadar, Maryam [VerfasserIn]
Munjal, Ashok [VerfasserIn]
Dhama, Kuldeep [VerfasserIn]
Karthik, Kumaragurubaran [VerfasserIn]
Tiwari, Ruchi [VerfasserIn]
Yatoo, Mohd Iqbal [VerfasserIn]
Iqbal, Hafiz M N [VerfasserIn]
Singh, Karam Pal [VerfasserIn]
Joshi, Sunil K [VerfasserIn]
Chaicumpa, Wanpen [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

AKT/mTOR signaling pathway
Apoptosis
Autophagy inhibition
Autophagy mechanism
Autophagy-associated diseases
Autosis
Chaperone-mediated autophagy
Iron homeostasis
Journal Article
Macroautophagy
Necroptosis
Necrosis
Review

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Date Completed 31.12.2019

Date Revised 25.02.2020

published: Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.3390/cells8070674

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM298907704